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Moving Wrap-up (I Hope): aka, The Move Part 4

June 21, 2014 by E. Rowan

[Part 1 & Part 2 chronicle the unbelievable nightmare of moving with Fidelity Moving Group. Part 3 has some advice and things I wished I had thought of before moving.] We finally arrived, the day before what was supposed to be our delivery date, in San Francisco, exhausted, sun-burnt, stressed out, and at night. We knew that we should expect a strange, overstuffed couch sitting in our apartment, in addition to what we hoped was all of our own stuff. And there it […]

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What I Learned About Moving, AKA, The Move (Part 3)

June 11, 2014 by E. Rowan

[Part 1 & Part 2 chronicle the unbelievable nightmare this move has been in more detail.] Though I’m still in the middle of the country, well, not exactly the middle anymore – now we’re in Arizona – and so the move has not finished because I still have to deal with getting a stranger’s couch out of my apartment when we arrive to San Francisco, I’ve been thinking a lot about this experience. The various other options we had. How […]

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Providence to San Francisco: The Move (Part 2)

June 10, 2014 by E. Rowan

Oh, and actually that wasn’t the end of it.[Part one: pickup, and botched delivery before we arrived.] Today, June 9, I heard from my friend that the driver had contacted him (not me, not the manager or dispatcher) to get access back to our apartment. Because he had accidentally delivered someone else’s stuff as well as ours. I told my friend not to do anything, and that we would handle it, since I didn’t trust these people to figure out which stuff […]

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Providence to San Francisco: The Move (Part 1)

June 10, 2014 by E. Rowan

Moving with Fidelity Moving Group The estimate was extremely low, almost unreasonably so, but Manisha seemed professional, and was very reassuring. The estimate was for 40 medium UHaul boxes, a 3-person couch, a queen sized mattress, a cedar chest, and a large piece of artwork, and was $1100 from Providence to San Francisco, including carrying up 2 large flights of stairs in San Francisco. The communication was bad from the beginning. Manisha told me that we would get a call […]

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E. Rowan Mena

Poet | Book Artist | Translator

Tag: cross country move

Moving Wrap-up (I Hope): aka, The Move Part 4

What I Learned About Moving, AKA, The Move (Part 3)

Providence to San Francisco: The Move (Part 2)

Providence to San Francisco: The Move (Part 1)